Airlings and Bouffages
Posted September 2, 2010 – 5:11 am in: JournalI am now reading “Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.” If you’re not familiar with the initials OED, they stand for Oxford English Dictionary. The OED is one big whopping dictionary. It is also as comprehensive as any lexicon of English words can ever be. The fellow who wrote the book I [...]
No Comments | Tags:23 Miles, 1 hour 28 min
Posted August 28, 2010 – 9:06 pm in: Fitness, JournalI drove to Buckner Park this morning, put my bike together, and rode 23 miles. I drive to Buckner Park occasionally and ride from there because Bass Road is heavily traveled by car and truck drivers and it has no shoulder to use in case I’m in danger of being kissed by a passing vehicle. [...]
No Comments | Tags:Strings Everywhere
Posted August 23, 2010 – 9:21 pm in: JournalI’m reading a book titled “The Elegant Universe” by Brian Greene. The book’s subtitle is “Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.” The book is Greene’s attempt to tell the history of superstring theory, which is (or rather, might be) a Theory of Everything, or T.O.E. Superstring theory (or string theory) is [...]
No Comments | Tags:Aboite Center Road and Biking
Posted August 19, 2010 – 4:58 am in: JournalAboite Center Road was opened for traffic this afternoon. This is very gratifying to me. The most advantageous aspect is that I’ll be able to bike on Aboite Center Road (ACR), over I-69, from Coventry Lane to the rear entrance of the Lutheran Hospital complex. I will then meander through the drives and trails of [...]
No Comments | Tags:Held Hostage
Posted August 17, 2010 – 5:58 am in: JournalI’ve been held hostage by the ongoing work on Aboite Center Rd. Friday afternoon, biking home after work, I attempted to cross Aboite Center at Coventry Lane. I was able to do so, but had to walk my bike across and step through a 20 foot width of oil that had been deposited on the [...]
2 Comments | Tags:Every City and Town In the World
Posted August 11, 2010 – 5:23 am in: JournalSomehow, while farting around online the other night, I stumbled across a file containing every town in the world. Yes, EVERY TOWN. At least, that’s what the file owner says. (The data was created by MaxMind, and is available at http://www.maxmind.com. ) Not only does it contain the name and nation of each town, but it [...]
2 Comments | Tags:Canada Trip Part 2
Posted August 9, 2010 – 5:01 am in: JournalWe left Niagara-on-the-Lake on Thursday morning, July 29, after breakfasting with the other guests at Mi Casa, Michael and Sandy from Toronto. Nearly all of the people we met at breakfast on this trip were from Toronto. In past years, most of those we met were from either the US or other countries and very [...]
1 Comment | Tags:Canada Trip Part 1
Posted August 3, 2010 – 9:34 pm in: JournalWe left for Canada (via automobile) at about 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 25, and crossed the Lewiston-Queenston bridge at 8:00 p.m. or so. It took over an hour to cross the bridge and get through customs, which seemed to be an abnormally long wait. After finally reaching Canadian soil, we drove a few kilometers [...]
No Comments | Tags:The Catcher in the Rye
Posted July 17, 2010 – 5:58 pm in: JournalI finished reading, for the first time, J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” this afternoon. I’m not really sure why I hadn’t read the book before. Perhaps it was because it was banned from the reading list during my high school days. I really don’t know if it was banned in my school, [...]
No Comments | Tags:Query Progress
Posted July 10, 2010 – 9:19 pm in: JournalI received a second response to my queries to literary agents the other day. It was, like the first one, well-written, concise, to the point, and dismissive. This one contained the line, “Though what you’ve written promises to be thoughtful and compelling, I’m afraid we were unable to find a place for it at this [...]
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